Local Matters for February 
The first Sierra Club, started in California in 1892. It is now the oldest environmental group in the world...Fast forward to 2012 and in S. AZ , alone, there are 3000 members of the Sierra Club Rincon Group. Russell Lowes, Rincon Group Executive Committee Member and Randy Serraglio Rincon Group Executive Committee Member and Secretary join Local Matters host Vicki Evans to talk about the group's latest activities.
Sierra Club Rincon Group
Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays through February 8pm on 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
Kim Sparling, webmaster for the Assistance League of Tucson and co-chair of WHATZITWORTH along with Catherine Baron, an Art Historian and Appraiser of Art and Antiques, an appraiser on PBS's Antiques Roadshow and owner of Catherine's Estates and Appraisals talk about the the League's new fundraiser, WHATZITWORTH on February 12th (tickets are still available). Viewers also learn about the services offered everyday to disadvantaged men, women, and children in our community by the Assistance League of Tucson.
At WHATZITWORTH, professional arts and antiques appraisers will tell you just how much that yard sale find is really worth. Watch the show or visit their website for more info.
Assistance League of Tucson
Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays (ends February 12)
8:15pm on 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
The Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce wants you to know that while you tend to your business, the Tucson Chamber advocates for you by developing a climate in which business can create jobs and operate at a profit. Local Matters host Vicki Evans talks with Tucson Metro Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Michael Varney and Wendell Long, Chairman of the Tucson Chamber Board to find out how they do it.
Tucson Metro Chamber
Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays through February 8:30pm on 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox) All programs simultaneously stream here.
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Call for Board Candidates
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Update Your Volunteer Information
Some of our records may not show all the productions for which you have volunteered. That means you are not getting credit for all your efforts.
Why are we looking at this? Primarily to enhance communications between staff, producers and all our volunteers.
When producers initiate new projects they want to recruit qualified volunteers. If we have old or incorrect information about what you have done, then you may not be given the chance to work on projects which you would like. By updating your volunteer work you will let producers know how much experience you have. That gives them a better chance at putting together a winning team.
Updating your information is easy. Send us an e-mail (volunteer@accesstucson.org) and tell us the name of each production that you have worked on.
Also, if you have a particular interest or talent in areas such as modeling, voice, script writing, art, etc. or even if you just want to volunteer as a grip; send us an e-mail. We will update your record.
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Science in the City
Access Tucson's event for the Arizona SciTech Festival will explore the use of visual FX on television. Come on down and find out how the tricks are created.
Saturday, February 18
2pm-6pm
Access Tucson Studio B
FREE
The Arizona SciTech Festival showcases Arizona as a national leader in science, technology and innovation through a series of events taking place during the month of February 2012. Spearheaded by the Arizona Technology Council Foundation in partnership with Arizona State University and Arizona Science Center, the Arizona SciTech Festival is a grass roots collaboration of over 200 organizations in industry, academia, arts, community and K-12, geared to excite and inform Arizonans ages three to 103 about how science, technology and innovation will drive our state for the next 100 years.
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Project White House TV Debate
The Tucson Weekly and Access Tucson present a live debate of local presidential candidates for the Arizona primary on February 28, 2012.
Sunday, February 19th
Access Tucson Studio A
Doors open at 6pm for a live studio audience
Live at 7pm on 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
In Arizona, you don't need to gather signatures to get on the presidential-primary ballot. You don't need to pay a filing fee. You don't even need to show your birth certificate. All you have to do is fill out a two-page form, have it notarized, and send it off to the Arizona secretary of state.
Learn more about the stable of dark-horse candidates for the presidency of the United States from pages of the Tucson Weekly.
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| 2012 Tucson Rodeo Parade
Replays of the Tucson Rodeo Parade
Saturday 2/25 and Sunday 2/26 at 9pm
Tuesdays and Fridays from 2/28 to 3/30 at 8pm
All times on Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
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Enter the Hometown Media Awards
The Call for Entries for the Hometown Media Awards is now open. Please go online for the new online submission form and uploading of video entries.
The Hometown Media Awards honor and promote community media and local cable programs that are distributed on PEG access cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.
Deadline: Monday, April 2nd, 2012
The Hometown Media Awards is local cable's largest video awards competition. Winners of the Hometown Media Awards will be recognized during the Alliance for Community Media 2012 Conference & Exhibition in Chicago. July 31-August 2, 2012.
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Save the Date: April 18th
Join Access Tucson Community Media and our supporters and friends in the first annual celebration dedicated to free speech. The event will be held on Wednesday, April 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Café a la C'Art in the Tucson Museum of Art courtyard.
Featuring the theme "eat, drink and speak freely," attendees will enjoy an artistic array of fine foods while being entertained by the Arizona Daily Star's editorial cartoonist David Fitzsimmons and famed local comic Robert Mac. There will also be a silent art auction and a raffle for valuable prizes.
"We can't think of a better way to celebrate the first amendment and the value we place on free speech than to invite Tucson to enjoy an evening of laughter and fun," says Access Tucson Executive Director Lisa Horner. "'Fitz,' Robert and Max are not only home-grown, but exemplify important freedoms in our country."
Access Tucson Community Media has a 28-year history of promoting freedom of speech through all forms of media. Its classes, productions and coverage of local events have received nationwide recognition.
"Laughter and free speech are inextricably entwined," says AT Board President Bob Kovitz. From the earliest writings of Jonathan Swift to the "truthiness" of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, the media have been used to share ideas and to galvanize public opinion.
This is a chance for the community to honor the rights of citizens to speak freely in an era when civil speech seems to be at a premium, this is an ideal way for Tucson to support public discourse.
Tickets are $30 per person or $50 per couple. Entry includes food, entertainment, a complimentary serving of beer or wine and entry into the raffle. For tickets, go to www.accesstucson.org or call 520-624-9833 Fri. & Sat. 2-10pm.
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